Dmp

Funding Agency Guidelines¶

United States¶

US National Science Foundation (NSF) Data - comprehensive NSF data management resources

US NSF Data Management Plan Requirements - official NSF DMP policy and requirements

NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy - effective January 2023, applies to all NIH-funded research

NIH DMS Plan Elements - six core elements required in NIH data management and sharing plans

NASA Open Science and Data Management Plan - ROSES OSDMP template and guidance for 2025/2026

USGS Data Management Plans - USGS policy and guidance

International¶

UKRI Data Management Plan Guidance - UK Research and Innovation DMP requirements

UKRI MRC DMP Template - Medical Research Council template

Canada Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy - CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC joint policy

Canada DMP Assistant - national bilingual DMP tool supported by Digital Research Alliance of Canada

European Commission Horizon Europe DMP - Horizon Europe data management requirements

DMP Tools & Templates¶

DMP Tool - free, community-supported service by UC Curation Center that creates machine-actionable DMPs meeting funder requirements and open science best practices. Includes 1000+ public sample plans.

Data Stewardship Wizard - publicly available web-based tool developed within ELIXIR infrastructure providing FAIR metrics and guiding users to make data as FAIR as possible

DMPonline - web-based tool by Digital Curation Centre (DCC) with pre-set templates based on specific funder policy documents

Argos OpenAIRE - open source DMP tool developed within OpenAIRE and EUDAT projects, linked to ORCID, OpenAIRE services, and Zenodo repository

Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO) - assemble all relevant planning information and data management tasks across the whole life cycle of research data

OSF DMP Creation Guide - guidance for creating DMPs within Open Science Framework

University & Institutional Guidance¶

Harvard Data Management Plans - HMS comprehensive DMP guidance and NIH DMSP templates

MIT Data Management Plans - MIT Libraries DMP writing guidance and templates

Stanford DMP Services - Stanford Libraries data management planning support and DMPTool access

UC Berkeley Research Data Management - UC Berkeley consultations and DMP resources

UArizona Data Management Plans - University of Arizona Libraries DMP guidance

University of Michigan DMP Templates - comprehensive collection of DMP templates and examples

UCSF Data Management Plans - University of California San Francisco DMP resources

DMP Best Practices & Training¶

FAIR Data Principles - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable principles for scientific data management

TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories - principles for digital repositories to be Transparent, Responsible, User-focused, Sustainable, and Technological

Research Data Management Training - comprehensive RDM guidance from Czech Academy of Sciences

NASA Earthdata DMP Guidance - creating and maintaining open science and data management plans for proposals